If anyone's listening who's struggling out there and is on their way to give up, don't give up because you don't know what's round the corner. Like right now, I feel like I'm really finding myself again. I can be handcuffed to a hospital on Monday, being a fucking institution sort of like them testing me on a Tuesday, and then Friday be back in a fucking boozer with a load of strangers talking shit again. You know that feeling you're feeling now? Oh mate, you've got to fucking live in that feeling. That shame, don't shy away from that because that's what's going to keep us over. Yeah, nice true. Hello and welcome to another episode of Menace to Sobriety with your host with a most. I don't mean to boast. It's Dan O'Reilly, aka Dapper. A bit of a different

one today. It's always a bit different, lots of different guests and stuff. I've got a feeling I'm going to relax into this one. I've done some pretty tough podcast recently. And although we're going to get into some serious subject matter, I feel like it's going to bring the inner a lad out of me. You know, I can let me head down a little bit because this is one of my own. I can tell.

Introducing to the stage and onto the podcast, a geezer that I've been following for a little while. Very talented. It's rags the goal. Thank you for coming. I DM'd and you were like, yeah, let's do it. Yeah, all day. Let's start by, you were telling me a funny story about, yeah, when you... So, yeah. Yeah, it's kind of mad. When I kind of sort of like came up with Rags the Goat, because I used to have another name, which was Rago, whoever remembers me. I used to rap under that name.

And was that just because you smash people up when you was... No, not even. It just... I don't know. I came up... Me and my pals came out of it when we was in school. And it just sort of meant you don't give a fuck kind of thing. You know what I mean? Yeah, it just stuck. But I used to do another sort of like... not sort of geysery type of rap.

It was more like street rap sort of thing.

But it was what I was living at the time. but I used to do another sort of like, not sort of geysery type of rap.

It was more like street rap sort of thing,

but it was what I was living at the time.

Do you know what I mean?

Yeah.

Yeah, when I kind of brought out what's happening, girl.

Which went fucking mental.

Which went absolutely AWOL.

I'll tell you another funny story in a minute but yeah you was like the first sort of main person

you know what I mean because obviously you was massive at the time

still massive now but at that time I was like I went to my miss

I went fucking I went oh I dapper laughs was commented on it

like I think we're on to sat in here you know what I mean

yeah yeah yeah and then yeah it just it sort of like blew, blew up

massively. And it's mad because at the time I was trying to get sober. But how I actually

came across sort of doing that song was me and my missis had had an argument that day and she had

fucked off out. I think it was because I'd probably been on it previously. Yeah. And we

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